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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (319814)	11/16/2002 12:22:04 AM
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Iraq Fires At Coalition Planes Nov. 15, 2002 (CBS) U.S. and British warplanes bombed a radar site in southern Iraq Friday after Iraq fired surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft artillery at warplanes patrolling a no-fly zone, the Defense Department said. U.S. aircraft fired back, hitting an air defense communications station 85 miles southeast of Baghdad. CBS News Correspondent David Martin reports the attack came just two days after Iraq said it accepted the U.N. resolution to disarm and allow inspectors to search for chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. U.S. officials say the Iraq action is a breach of the resolution. "When we were working on the resolution we said that Iraq should not take any action that would be hostile act against any member state," says Secretary of State Colin Powell. Paragraph 8 of the resolution says "Iraq shall not take or threaten hostile acts directed against any representative or personnel of the United Nations ... or of any member state taking action to uphold any council resolution." U.S. and British aircraft are patrolling the no-fly zone to enforce an earlier U.N. resolution barring Saddam Hussein from oppressing his own people. Firing on those aircrafts would, according to White House officials, violate the president's zero tolerance policy toward Iraqi violations of the resolution. But the big question is whether this incident starts a war with Iraq. According to Martin, U.S. officials say they intend to report this incident to the U.N. Security Council, but it will be up to the Security Council to decide whether this constitutes a violation of the resolution. And that seems unlikely since not all the members support the U.S. and British operations in the no-fly zones. Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. David Lapan said Friday evening that Iraq had fired surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft artillery at coalition planes. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and other Pentagon officials have been vague about whether Iraqi hostile actions in the no-fly zones would be considered a trigger for a wider U.S.-led attack. Coalition planes used precision-guided weapons to attack an "air defense communications facility" near An Najaf about 85 miles southeast of Baghdad, a Pentagon statement said. The strike happened at about 1950GMT. There were previous strikes on Sunday against two surface-to-air missile sites near Tallil, 175 miles southeast of Baghdad. © MMII, CBS Worldwide Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.